Newark Live - Barry Cartertag:www.nj.com,2015:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf/40152009-02-10T20:07:39ZA Newark Live blog by Barry CarterMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceNewark Housing Authority threatens to evict 75-year-old school crossing guardtag:www.nj.com,2009:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.21845642009-02-10T10:40:14Z2009-02-10T10:48:40ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter For almost year now, Erna Green has been overbilled, surcharged and threatened with eviction from her senior citizen apartment on Summit Street. In fact, her latest notice from the Newark Housing Authority warned her that eviction proceedings...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter For almost year now, Erna Green has been overbilled, surcharged and threatened with eviction from her senior citizen apartment on Summit Street. In fact, her latest notice from the Newark Housing Authority warned her that eviction proceedings...
Newark high school students learn social graces in three-month programtag:www.nj.com,2009:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.21657462009-02-06T09:00:11Z2009-02-10T20:07:39ZThe Star-LedgerBarry CarterRakim Alexander shook my hand firmly. He looked me straight in the eye, practicing what he had been taught. He engaged me in meaningful conversation, explained how courtesy and social graces are not choices - not take or...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry CarterRakim Alexander shook my hand firmly. He looked me straight in the eye, practicing what he had been taught. He engaged me in meaningful conversation, explained how courtesy and social graces are not choices - not take or...
Trek to Obama speech stalls amid human gridlocktag:www.nj.com,2009:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.20791012009-01-20T23:38:12Z2009-01-22T19:39:40ZThe Star-LedgerBarry CarterWASHINGTON - True human gridlock is nothing like the jams cars get into. When people are gridlocked it takes them three hours just to cross a street. Three hours. You get to know the person in front of...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry CarterWASHINGTON - True human gridlock is nothing like the jams cars get into. When people are gridlocked it takes them three hours just to cross a street. Three hours. You get to know the person in front of...
Pilgrimage to Washington fills void in Essex woman's historytag:www.nj.com,2009:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.20721882009-01-20T00:04:39Z2009-01-22T19:39:25ZThe Star-LedgerBarry CarterKathryn Allen-Curry wanted to go to the March on Washington in 1963. As a student at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., Allen-Curry knew what the struggle for civil rights was all about - she saw and...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry CarterKathryn Allen-Curry wanted to go to the March on Washington in 1963. As a student at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., Allen-Curry knew what the struggle for civil rights was all about - she saw and...
Community organizations rally at Newark public housing to honor Kingtag:www.nj.com,2009:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.20683102009-01-19T11:01:58Z2009-01-19T11:17:51ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Seth Boyden, a Newark public housing project, has long been considered one of the most dangerous places in the city. Police officers have been shot at by gang members. Drug sales are common. Residents complain about seedy...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Seth Boyden, a Newark public housing project, has long been considered one of the most dangerous places in the city. Police officers have been shot at by gang members. Drug sales are common. Residents complain about seedy...
Obama inspires New Jersey students at historically black collegestag:www.nj.com,2009:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.20650632009-01-18T02:01:34Z2009-01-18T15:36:40ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Jalil Muhammad was in Cook Hall, a Howard University dormitory, watching the presidential election returns with friends last November when suddenly it seemed that the campus was shaking. The networks had declared Barack Obama the winner of...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Jalil Muhammad was in Cook Hall, a Howard University dormitory, watching the presidential election returns with friends last November when suddenly it seemed that the campus was shaking. The networks had declared Barack Obama the winner of...
Newark woman always lends a helping handtag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.19520312008-12-24T12:07:48Z2009-01-16T22:18:13ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Gene McCoy made himself comfortable when he walked through the door. "Cut the game on," he said, eager to get out of the cold and eat. He pulled a chair up to the table as Kattie Jordan...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Gene McCoy made himself comfortable when he walked through the door. "Cut the game on," he said, eager to get out of the cold and eat. He pulled a chair up to the table as Kattie Jordan...
A drop of paint helps protect school childrentag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.19368052008-12-21T12:33:10Z2008-12-21T12:35:58ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Norma Vickers likes to paint. It could be on canvas, it could be the fence around her Newark apartment or the walls of the front and back rooms inside. She likes painting because it brings about change....Chanta L. Jacksonhttp://connect.nj.com/user/chjackson/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Norma Vickers likes to paint. It could be on canvas, it could be the fence around her Newark apartment or the walls of the front and back rooms inside. She likes painting because it brings about change....
Basement studio draws eager childrentag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.19056012008-12-14T11:34:34Z2008-12-20T13:33:02ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Most people knew it was a storage room in the basement of the Colonnade Apartments. It was drab, bland, filled with stuff. Up until three months ago, families in the Newark high-rise overlooking Route 280, paid it...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Most people knew it was a storage room in the basement of the Colonnade Apartments. It was drab, bland, filled with stuff. Up until three months ago, families in the Newark high-rise overlooking Route 280, paid it...
Newark program builds a new life for at-risk youthtag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.18690802008-12-12T12:39:07Z2008-12-12T13:02:56ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter It's difficult to call them homeless. If anything, they are transient. They have a place to lay their head, somewhere to eat and wash up. It could be with reluctant family members and friends, someone willing to...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter It's difficult to call them homeless. If anything, they are transient. They have a place to lay their head, somewhere to eat and wash up. It could be with reluctant family members and friends, someone willing to...
Building a life on hope and prayerstag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.18366892008-11-30T11:45:03Z2008-11-30T13:49:52ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Barry Fort's kidneys have been deteriorating since birth. He was in and out of the hospital through elementary school to get stabilized. By the time he reached high school in East Orange in 2002, things had gotten...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Barry Fort's kidneys have been deteriorating since birth. He was in and out of the hospital through elementary school to get stabilized. By the time he reached high school in East Orange in 2002, things had gotten...
A jarring diagnosis bolsters his will to succeedtag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.18339062008-11-28T14:44:05Z2008-11-28T17:45:21ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Basheer Shareef didn't have the cane in his hand for long. He threw it down, letting it land on the floor of his living room in Newark. "Walk with me," he said, starting to recite a poem...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Basheer Shareef didn't have the cane in his hand for long. He threw it down, letting it land on the floor of his living room in Newark. "Walk with me," he said, starting to recite a poem...
One block of a better worldtag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.18169422008-11-23T17:16:06Z2008-11-24T17:21:44ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter With a rake in one hand, a long-handle dustpan nearby, Leon Hickman doesn't waste time picking up litter, pausing only when he hears his name. "Mr. Hickman? He looked up, just above his glasses, pulling off his...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter With a rake in one hand, a long-handle dustpan nearby, Leon Hickman doesn't waste time picking up litter, pausing only when he hears his name. "Mr. Hickman? He looked up, just above his glasses, pulling off his...
ABC ruling satisfies no onetag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.18098662008-11-23T12:00:49Z2008-11-23T12:11:56ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter The division was clear. On the left side of the room in Newark municipal court there were about 80 South Ward residents ready to tell the Alcohol Beverage Control Board one thing. They did not want another...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter The division was clear. On the left side of the room in Newark municipal court there were about 80 South Ward residents ready to tell the Alcohol Beverage Control Board one thing. They did not want another...
Residents' concerns pile up with trashtag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.17792262008-11-16T11:59:17Z2008-11-16T12:15:20ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Robert Pratt heard the garbage truck coming down the street Wednesday. He was relieved. So was Cassandra Farmer. The Newark residents pulled their overflowing garbage cans out again. This time the city's sanitation department finally picked it...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Robert Pratt heard the garbage truck coming down the street Wednesday. He was relieved. So was Cassandra Farmer. The Newark residents pulled their overflowing garbage cans out again. This time the city's sanitation department finally picked it...
Bandleader brothers play duet of dedicationtag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.17343022008-11-07T10:19:07Z2008-11-07T10:21:25ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Keith Place is in the auditorium at Passaic's Dr. Martin Luther King School No. 6 before the morning clock hits 7:30. He's checking instruments, waiting for students who need help with a musical arrangement. Blocks away, at...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Keith Place is in the auditorium at Passaic's Dr. Martin Luther King School No. 6 before the morning clock hits 7:30. He's checking instruments, waiting for students who need help with a musical arrangement. Blocks away, at...
Obama picks up the pace of 'a slow stride to equality'tag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.17229372008-11-05T12:10:24Z2008-11-05T12:13:12ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter Mary N. Moore had not turned off the political channels for 24 hours. Fox, MSNBC, CNN had been constantly on, the remote in her hands as she hung on the pundits' every word. And when decision time...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter Mary N. Moore had not turned off the political channels for 24 hours. Fox, MSNBC, CNN had been constantly on, the remote in her hands as she hung on the pundits' every word. And when decision time...
A voice deep within her now speaks to otherstag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.17074742008-11-03T10:25:23Z2008-11-03T19:43:26ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter A voice deep within her now speaks to others Monday, November 03, 2008 The first half of Lilisa Williams' life had not gone well. There was rebellion and shame as a teenager growing up in Cincinnati. Dropping...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter A voice deep within her now speaks to others Monday, November 03, 2008 The first half of Lilisa Williams' life had not gone well. There was rebellion and shame as a teenager growing up in Cincinnati. Dropping...
Newark program helps men find stabilitytag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.17081142008-11-02T14:15:49Z2008-11-03T14:18:14ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter It's only been two months, but Jesus Rios is still in disbelief. He has keys in his hands, a signed lease, too. For the first time in 41 years, Rios is independent. He's not mooching off family...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter It's only been two months, but Jesus Rios is still in disbelief. He has keys in his hands, a signed lease, too. For the first time in 41 years, Rios is independent. He's not mooching off family...
Scouting with an urban twisttag:www.nj.com,2008:/newark/barrycarter/index.ssf//4015.16607462008-10-26T12:44:10Z2008-10-26T12:48:08ZThe Star-LedgerBarry Carter The sight of three brothers wheedling their grandfather to sign them up for Boy Scouts is what Zachary Turner needed to see. This was the enthusiasm he banked on when he and Pastor Jerry Smith decided to...Barry Carter | The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/bcarter/index.html
The Star-LedgerBarry Carter The sight of three brothers wheedling their grandfather to sign them up for Boy Scouts is what Zachary Turner needed to see. This was the enthusiasm he banked on when he and Pastor Jerry Smith decided to...